Tag: hurricane

Hurricanes Helene and Milton are following the trend of these storms becoming supercharged and more likely to form, according to a pair of studies from the World Weather Attribution. 

"How they're going at me is surprising because Marjorie Taylor Greene has made this inference that Jews control the weather, and I'm a Jewish mayor and somehow there's a correlation." Asheville's Jewish Mayor, Esther Manheimer

When Idalia made landfall sustained winds were 125 miles per hour, making it the strongest hurricane to hit Big Bend since records started in 1851.

Are Republicans like Governor DeSantis “more concerned about sticking it to Joe Biden than actually making sure that they can take care of their people?”

While the full health impacts of the fire weren’t immediately known, a storm-driven chlorine gas release in a vulnerable community is the type of worst-case scenario that scientists and engineers like myself have warned the petrochemical industry about for decades.

The current projections have both storms passing through the Gulf of Mexico and barreling into the coast at the same time on Wednesday morning.

It is the third most powerful storm to ever hit the U.S. mainland, and meteorologists say it is supercharged by warmer-than-usual water in the Gulf of Mexico.

“There are a lot of questions remaining about why this had to occur then, why there couldn’t have been some sort of an emergency delay.”

Prisoners were instead put to work behind bars making sandbags to prepare for the storm’s arrival.

The Trump administration has reallocated nearly $10 million from FEMA’s budget to ICE to pay for detention space and deportations.